Wednesday, September 07, 2005

How Japan Came to Be

Once upon a time there was an emperor of China who wanted to live forever. He was a great emperor who had united China as one nation. He tasked many of the best doctors and scientists in his empire to bring him a medicine that would help increase his life, however, they all failed and so the emperor killed them.

Finally, the emperor found one man who said he could make this medicine, but he needed 500 teenage boys and 500 teenage girls and 2 large boats. He also requested lots of food and told the emperor it would take a long time to test the medicine and he would need all of these boys and girls to help him with the testing of the medicine. The emperor believed the brilliant scientists and gave him everything that he requested. That man took the young girls and boys to the island of Japan and started a whole new country.

Japanese is a derivative of Chinese and if you look closely at a lot of the Japanese characters you will notice that they are a less complex version of the same Chinese characters. As the years passed on Japan the original characters were broken down and this new language was developed.

So now you have the new Posted Note look with an inspiring story to enjoy it with.

20 Comments:

steve said...

I feel ANGRY when I come here now!'
GRRRRR!!!!

ok. Im joking.

brilliant as always Eddo-san

now paint the fence

4:07 PM  
Heather said...

But can you catch flies with chopsticks?

4:23 PM  
Edgy Mama said...

Nice. LOVE the design. And the story, which I've never heard.

And I like it when Steve growls.

4:33 PM  
Faith in Florida said...

Now, i want some sushi.

5:21 PM  
Heather said...

Eddo - will you give us Japanese lessons? My japanese consists of "Domo Arigato Mr Roboto"

Domo

Domo

5:33 PM  
Cav said...

looks good...i haven't had sushi since before being sick...something about raw...

the asian theme is obviously in.. :)

6:17 PM  
Lava said...

love it...interesting story too!

9:35 PM  
MsThang said...

Wow, I had to do a double check when I got here! Very ingenious Eddo, and great story to boot.

Wax on, wax off.

Steve: every time you growl it reminds me of Austin Powers.. grr baby.. grrrrr!

9:53 PM  
jes said...

faith, i'm with you. i'm hungry for sushi. now i know why.

6:46 AM  
Katie said...

Eddie - Love it. As I told Jes when she told me you changed the site. You go for drama and bam!! factor in some of your site designs. I like the red don't listen to the growling haters. Ha

6:55 AM  
Edge said...

Wax on wax off. Very red and happy. Hey your RS feed points you to "About" and not your blog.

~Jef

7:23 AM  
Leann said...

You learn something new every day. Thanks Eddo-san

7:44 AM  
Ben said...

Did you make that story up?

Nice template Sensai!

9:23 AM  
Austin's Wonderland said...

Code Red...I repeat Code Red!!!!!

9:23 AM  
Ben said...

Lava-

I had to click on your picture... to enlarge it... I thought that was a pet monkey in your hands.

9:24 AM  
Eddo said...

The story was told to me by a Chinese guy that I work with - I thought it was pretty cool. He said everyone in China has heard this story.

9:27 AM  
Ben said...

By the way... for the record... I would just like to say that Eddie changes his template more often then women like to change their hairstyles.

Nothing inherently wrong with that... just thought I would inform all of Posted Note's readers of my obervation.

9:30 AM  
Eddo said...

Ben, if you will remember, Eddo is the creator of BlogJacket and you can never have too many blogjackets!

The whole purpose of blogjacket is to get people to not just buy one template and keep it forever, but to buy multiple templates, maybe changing it every single month! Right now I change mine about every 6 weeks...

9:47 AM  
Anonymous said...

What a great site » » »

11:00 PM  
Anonymous said...

This is very interesting site... »

1:29 PM  

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